Since the early 1990s technology forecasts play an increasingly important role in the S&T and innovation policies at the international, country, regional and corporate levels. In this regard, significant attention is given to monitoring and evaluation of such activities to improve their...

The aim of this paper is to present and illustrate the procedure to follow when a researcher wants to use meta-analysis in marketing research. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings....

Although widely studied, deforestation remains a topical and typical issue. The relationship between economic development and deforestation is still at stake. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies for deforestation. Using 71 studies, offering 631...

A number of conflicting theoretical hypotheses have been advanced regarding the impact of unions on investment behavior. The net impact of unions on investment is thus an empirical issue. In this paper the available empirical literature is reviewed. In addition, new evidence of the impact of...

In this article, we describe a new individual patient data meta-analysis postestimation command, ipdforest. The command produces a forest plot following a one-stage meta-analysis with xtmixed or xtmelogit. (These commands have been renamed in Stata 13 to mixed and meqrlogit, respectively;...

In this article, we describe a suite of commands that enable the user to estimate the probability that the conclusions of a meta-analysis will change with the inclusion of a new study, as described previously by Sutton et al. (2007, Statistics in Medicine 26: 2479–2500). Using the metasim...

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...

Use of microdata is severely hampered in many areas of research. This is in particular true for data from statistical offices. One way to circumvent this problem is to anonymize the data such that both confidentiality is guaranteed and informational content of the data is not too much distorted...

Results from past studies on transport elasticities show a large variance. The aim of this paper is to assess key factors that influence the sensitivity of travellers to transport costs in Europe, by carrying out a comparative analysis of the different elasticity values of demand for transport...

Contrary to private enterprises, public enterprises can be unaware of the impact of their performance when providing services to the public. This is often the case when a small array of choices is in citizens’ hands or coercion is the only possibility and a public service must be received and...